Zora Neale Hurston's Anthropological Musical with Jordan Ealey (Ep. 129)
About this episode
Jordan Ealey discusses Zora Neale Hurston's musical Polk County and its significance in the musical theater canon.
Did you know writer and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston wrote a musical? Now you do! Multidisciplinary Black feminist scholar-artist Jordan Ealey discusses Hurston’s 1944 musical Polk County and what this anthropological musical was like, as well as its past and future in the musical theater canon. We also discuss “Sweet Chitty Chatty” from Kirsten Childs’s 2000 musical The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin. Join us for the annual Scene to Song Live Show on December 22nd at 8PM EST- streaming on Scene to Song's YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/@SceneToSong Music played in this episode: "Halihmuhfack" “Wake Up, Jacob” “Sweet Chitty Chatty” from The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin
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